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Tower Gardens provide lessons and lunches

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Homegrown basil, chard, kale and more are livening up lunches at Wealthy Elementary...

Quiz Bowl team headed to nationals for second time ever

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This Memorial Day weekend, for only the second time in school history, the East Grand Rapids Quiz Bowl team is competing in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments national championships...

Book Club members are ‘licensed to read’

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In room 007 on Thursday afternoons at East Grand Rapids Middle School, students gather to read, write and make connections. There’s also candy...

The people on the journey

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This East Grand Rapids senior says she can finally be herself...

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‘Let’s get together and play some music’

State of the Arts Alexis Stark

Lee and East Grand Rapids high schools performed a community concert as a dedication to Ukrainian refugees...

From wildlife biologist to ‘faux-brarian’

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This Breton Downs volunteer also coordinates a team of more than 50 parent and grandparent volunteers...

Read-alouds (finally) get face-to-face

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More than 100 East Grand Rapids High School students spread out across the district’s elementary schools in a structured read-aloud session with K-5 students...

A Pi Day lesson they could sink their teeth into

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Students in Laura Woolford’s sixth-grade class at East Grand Rapids Middle School got to measure, then eat in celebration...

Gummy bear government makes lesson stick

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When this project is over, it’s snack time...

Public event to feature IB student research on pressing world issues

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At presentations on Feb. 15, students will explain how and why they chose their topic, the answer to their essay’s original question, next steps they would take and the challenges and successes of their work...

They the People: EGR brings home another state championship

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The We the People championship is East’s 15th since 2000. East Kentwood finished second. Both teams also qualify for nationals...

Making art a COVID lifesaver

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A talented middle-school student finds relief from pandemic stress in his artwork...

From Sherlock Holmes to ‘The Spore’

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Whether playing 'spore kid' or a street urchin, Zoë Cunningham is having the time of her life as an actress...

Former Wyoming Park student athlete is new AD for EGR

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Chris Zylstra is the new athletic director for East Grand Rapids. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...

EGR and Kelloggsville pass millage requests, but Cedar turns down sinking fund

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Local districts went two-for-three in Tuesday’s elections, with voters in Kelloggsville and East Grand Rapids approving tax requests. However, voters in Cedar Springs turned down a proposed renewal of a 10-year-old sinking fund...

Millage requests on ballot Tuesday for three Kent County school districts

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Three Kent ISD school districts -- Cedar Springs, East Grand Rapids and Kelloggsville -- are going to their voters with millage requests on Tuesday, Nov. 2...

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